Chicagoist Weekend Theater: 1967 Chicago Blizzard Radio Reports

By Jon Graef in Arts & Entertainment on Nov 17, 2013 9:00PM

With the sun just emerging, now's a good time to look at how older forms of media reported sizable storms in the past. In that spirit, our weekend theater pick is broadcast clips of the great 1967 Chicago Blizzard. According to uploader Boonshit, the broadcasts came from WCGO and WTAS studios, which broadcasted from "Chicago Heights and surrounding south suburban Chicago areas."

Boon explains more:

The audio was originally recorded on a reel-to-reel by a Crete resident. The reel and recorder were later auctioned off when the resident had passed on and we have been lucky to obtain it. The video was done with stills of roughly half actual pictures from that blizzard (Chicago Tribune's "Big Snow", January, 1967) and half random pictures not necessarily from the blizzard, but there for filler, hopefully to make this all so not boring.

It's anything but boring. Check it out:

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[Part 3]

[Part 4]